I’m posting this in support of Honey (of Coffeespoons), who’s one of the nicest people I’ve met in the local book blogging / literary network. 😉 Also, Flipreads seems like a very viable alternative for people like me who are worried about online transactions and going crazy on Amazon and exceeding my credit limit. 😛
I hope that the alternative payment systems on Flipreads (like GCash) will be available soon, along with more titles in more formats! 🙂
eBooks now made accessible to Filipinos through Flipreads.com
Filipinos can now have easier access to eBooks through the online eBookstore, Flipreads.com. Likewise, authors and publishers can now distribute their eBooks more widely and securely through the same website, which was launched on November 11 2011 from 4-7PM at the Celebrity Sports Club Grand Ballroom.
Flipreads.com is owned and developed by Flipside Publishing Services, a sister company of Flipside Digital Content. Flipside Digital Content, previously just a conversion house catering to four of the top six international publishers, is responsible for publishing and co-publishing more than 70 Filipino and Asian eBooks on Amazon, Apple iBookstore, and Barnes and Noble just in its first six months of operation. Most of these international eBookstores, however, are not available to the local populace.
Filipinos can only buy from Amazon, albeit with an added cost of $2 per book. Now, Flipside is making eBooks more accessible especially for Filipinos through Flipreads.com. Readers can download eBooks onto their Apple or Android devices. They can even download it onto their PCs or Macs. Whereas before, Filipinos could only buy eBooks legitimately if they had credit cards, but with Flipreads, they may use other payment gateways such as CashSense and, in the near future, Globe GCash, and Smart Money.
Flipreads also serves as a secure distribution platform for Filipino publishers, authors, and other content providers. Therefore, publishers can now sell their eBooks securely through Flipreads.com. Authors can also opt to independently publish their titles through the site. Other institutions and entities can also distribute their digital materials safely through Flipreads. eBooks distributed through Flipreads can be made secure through the use of Adobe Content Server’s
DRM. DRM stands for Digital Rights Management and is the means by which eBooks are protected from casual piracy. Alternatively, authors and publishers may choose to distribute their eBooks for free through the Flipreads site.Flipreads also hopes to provide a venue to publishers and authors to bring previously out-of-print titles back into circulation. Since everything is online, these titles will also be available to an international market.
For more information, email business@flipreads.com or call +632-5709255 or +63917-6206244.
The Girl Who Read and Other Stories 
Hi, Meann! Thank you so much, both for spreading the word about Flipreads and for saying I’m a nice person. We should hang out more often so you can see my dark side *insert ominous music*.
Anyway, we’d actually like more titles, too, and that all depends on local authors and publishers who’d like to distribute their books through Flipreads. As for the formats, soon as Amazon ceases being proprietary, then we can be truly device agnostic. (I’m hoping for that, too.)
See you at Komikon?:)
Yeah, we really should hang out more often! *insert Imperial March / Darth Vader theme here or maybe the Psycho theme* 😛